Expanding global mapping of the foliage clumping index with multi-angular POLDER three measurements: Evaluation and topographic compensation

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 341-346

  Pisek, Jan ^a,b   Chen, Jing M ^a   Lacaze, Roselyne ^c   Sonnentag, Oliver ^d   Alikas, Krista ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b TARTU OBSERVATORY   (Estonia)

^c CESBIO   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

BRDF; Multi angle remote sensing; POLDER; Vegetation clumping index

Indexed keywords

BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; COMPENSATION FUNCTIONS; DATA SETS; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; FIELD MEASUREMENT; GLOBAL MAPPING; HIGH RESOLUTION; INDEX REDUCTION; LAND-COVER TYPES; MULTI-ANGLE REMOTE SENSING; RUGGED TERRAIN; SPATIAL AGGREGATION; TERRAIN COMPLEXITY; TERRAIN EFFECT; VEGETATION CLUMPING INDEX;

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; LANDFORMS; MAPS; REMOTE SENSING;

VEGETATION;

BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE; BIOME; DATA SET; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; FOLIAGE; LAND COVER; POLDER; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TERRAIN; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING; VEGETATION INDEX;

EID: 77954033601     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2010.03.002     Document Type: Article

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